Judeans in Elephantine and Babylonia
A Case Study on Rights and Tenancy Status
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21408356 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James D Moore (0000-0001-8912-2730, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Theologische Fakultät Burgstr. 26, D-10178 Berlin Deutschland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 132 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 40-56 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-2526 • E-ISSN: 1613-0103 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/zaw-2020-0006 |
| OpenAlex | W3007802347 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This paper is a case study that discusses Judean rights and tenancy in Egypt under the Persian administration. It uses TAD A6.11, a Persian Aramaic decree about farmland rights in Egypt, as an example of an imperial document to mediate a comparison between the Babylonian Judean experience in farmlands and Egyptian Judean experience on the (sub-)urban island of Elephantine under Persian rule. First a Babylonian Judean document, CUSAS 28 no. 69 is used to interpret the enigmatic, yet central legal claim about crushing the ilku- tax in TAD A6.11. The two sources are then compared, and the implications of the findings are studied by referring to documents of Elephantine Judeans regarding tenancy rights ( mhḥsn -status). The findings demonstrate that the two communities are socially comparable, so long as the Persian administrative system is considered in a comparison of the communities’ surviving documents
Ancient history · Archaeology · Decree · Leasehold estate · Persian · Political science · Theology · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |